There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
R. D. LaingAlienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
R. D. LaingChildren are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible.
R. D. LaingEven facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".
R. D. Laing